On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:24 +0000, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> >All the main lighting in my house has been switched over to 
> >CFLs, and I'm very happy with the result.
> >
> 
> I have CFLs in every location without a dimmer.  However, I still don't like to see them left on unnecessarily and the problem is that turning them on and off frequently causes them to fail prematurely.

Perhaps the older ones had that problem? I turn mine off and on alot in
the course of a day and they are still going strong, not a single one
has failed (granted it hasn't been more then say a year and a half, but
I know that if they were incandescent I would have had to replace
several of them by now).

> I also have a few rooms with dimmer switches which most CFL's don't like. Is there a viable alternative to filament lamps if you want to use phase controlled dimming?

Yup, CFLs. There are "dimmable" CFLs available, they don't "dim" as far
as incandescents but they should be enough for most uses. They are more
expensive then "normal" CFLs however. TTYL

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